Work to Do

Eleanor and Meg founded Guadalupe Street Co-op in the early 1980s. Together, they envisioned an idyllic grocery store owned by its workers and customers. But after only a year, Meg bolted, leaving Eleanor with a floundering business and an angry, unhealing wound. Forty years later, Guadalupe Street Co-op is an iconic Austin business with a loyal customer base, an antiquated business model, and a disgruntled staff. Unfolding over the course of a single week during Texas hurricane season, Work to Do pings between the co-op's first year and present day, as the unionization bid reaches fever pitch. Who owns the grocery store? And who has a right to its future? Will the workers ever be paid enough to buy the organic groceries they shelve?